A review of ‘Folding Patterns of the Shroud of Turin,’ by Pam Moon, academia.edu, January 2025 The various marks left by adventitious damage to the Shroud demonstrate at least three different ways in which the Shroud has been folded, and throughout most of the twentieth century it has been rolled up. In her paper, Pam […]
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John Loken has been active in the Shroud field for two decades, and recently a reviewer of this blog, as a believer in the Shroud’s authenticity and in a natural, not supernatural, formation of the image on it. The world of sindonology is far more nuanced than a cursory review might suppose. Not all Christians […]
We left Jack Markwardt’s masterly review of just about every reference to every image of Jesus in Christendom up to the year 900 with the Tarragona Manuscript, which specifically refers to the Image of Edessa being locked away after an earthquake in Constantinople (and therefore a post-944 date), but which Markwardt thinks actually refers to […]
A preliminary experiment One of the difficulties in determining the minimum density of red ochre that might be needed to make a noticeable difference to a colourless cloth is the experimental procedure from which to measure it. Morris, Schwalbe and London (‘X-Ray Fluorescence Investigation of the Shroud of Turin,’ X-Ray Spectrometry, 1980) calculated values of […]
What on earth happened – or should I say didn’t happen – on 20th August 2024? Out of a blue sky, a sudden media frenzy erupted around a previously largely unnoticed piece of research carried out by some Italian scientists two to five years previously. Entering “Shroud” “Turin” and “WAXS” into the Google search bar […]
Dale Glover has produced a new podcast, called “Shroud Wars: Breaking the Breaking News (Fan Requests on WAXS vs. C-14),” of which the first half seems to return to his old style of listening to everybody and summing up with his own opinion, and concerns Giulio Fanti’s WAXS experiments – two years old now but […]
A recent diatribe by Dale Glover’s is called Shroud Wars: Hugh’s Hypocritical “Hit-Piece,” and attempts to justify an earlier piece called Oakwood Bible Study #4: Refuting the Shroud Skeptics, which I criticised in detail – there are nearly fifty statements which are plain wrong – in my own post Absence of evidence? Make it up! […]
[Digression] I first came across this maxim in the 1966 film, “A Man For All Seasons,” Robert Bolt’s brilliant historical drama about the conflict between Thomas More and Henry VIII. His refusal to sign the Oath of Supremacy, making Henry the “supreme head in earth of the church of England,” was widely recognised as a […]
Another nail in the authenticist coffin. The fourth and last lecture in a series of Zoom presentations hosted by the Oakwood Wesleyan Church in Toronto and delivered by Dale Glover is called ‘Refuting the Skeptics.’1 The first three were an introduction to the Turin Shroud, how the images were made, and the Shroud and the […]
Or rather: New Insights on Blood Evidence from the Turin Shroud, Giulio Fanti’s latest, rather wide ranging collection of brief comments into what seem to have been quite detailed investigations into the blood on the Shroud.1 I would be reluctant to comment on it at all had not Fanti referred to the “deafening silence” of […]